Sachin Tendulkar during the first Test Match(July - 2011) against England at Lord's in London

Sachin Tendulkar is a step closer to getting India's top award. Home ministry has recommended sports be made a category for Bharat Ratna consideration, as told to Time Now.

The home ministry has written to the Prime Minister's Office to include sports as a category in Bharat Ratna. The recommendation will pave way for cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar to be awarded India's highest civilian award.

If awarded, Sachin will become the country's first sportsperson to bag Bharat Ratna and the clamour has specially grown especially after Sachin helped India lift the World Cup earlier this year.

Tendulkar deserves to get Bharat Ratna, says Deshmukh

Newly-elected president of the Mumbai Cricket Association, Vilasrao Deshmukh, on Friday said that Sachin Tendulkar deserved to get Bharat Ratna and no one would object if the champion cricketer got the country's highest civilian award.

"Sachin deserves Bharat Ratna. Being the president of Mumbai Cricket Association, I would talk to the sports minister, home minister and Prime Minister and request them to change the norms for the award to include sportspersons too in its category of recipients," Deshmukh said.

Deshmukh chaired the first managing committee meeting of the MCA after his election to the president's post at the biennial polls of the association held on July 15. The former Maharashtra CM had vanquished former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar comfortably in a straight contest to succeed another politician, NCP leader Sharad Pawar, as the MCA president.

List of 100 Records of Sachin Tendulkar:Its been 21 years since Sachin Tendulkar stepped in to the International arena of Cricket. Sachin has been breaking cricket records ever since his debut, and will surely break more records in the time to come. Following Sachin Tendulkar records list has been growing ever year, and will grow until he plays.

Record number of matches played – 442 matches

First player to play a record 400 innings

Number of consecutive ODI appearances – 190 matches

Cricket grounds played on – 90 grounds

Highest individual score by a single player – 200*

Most runs in a cricket career – 17,598 runs

Record number of ODI centuries – 46 Centuries

Record number of centuries in ODIs against an opponent – 9 Centuries

Record number of centuries in tournament finals – 6 Centuries

Record number of centuries in all formats against an opponent – 19 centuries

On Sachin’s Debut, he was the second youngest debutant after Aaqib Javed of Pakistan

First player to score 10,000 runs

First player to score 11,000 runs

First player to score 12,000 runs

First player to score 13,000 runs

First player to score 14,000 runs

First player to score 15,000 runs

First player to score 16,000 runs

First player to score 17,000 runs

Only male player to score a double century in ODIs

Tendulkar has scored more than 1,000 runs against every major cricket playing nation

Sachin is the only player to score more than 3000 runs against a single opponent – Sri Lanka and Australia

Holds the record to score more than 1,000 runs in a single calender year. He has done this 7 times so far.

Most number of runs in tournament finals – 1833 runs

Most fours in an innings – 25 against South Africa

Record number of scores above 150 in an innings – 5

Most Half Centuries in ODIs – 93 Half Centuries

Highest number of scores over 50 – 139

Most Man of the Match awards in ODIs – 61

Most Man of the Series awards in ODIs – 19

Most half centuries in world cup matches – 13

Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most runs in ODIs in a calendar year – 1894 runs in 1998

Second Fastest to reach 8000 test runs. Record recently broken by Kumar Sangakarra

To look at the Russian RadioAstron spacecraft, which launched from Kazakhstan this Monday, it doesn't seem particularly record-breaking. Its 10-meter (33-foot) antenna is certainly no match for those on earthbound radio telescopes, which can be up to 300 meters (984 feet) across. Once in orbit, however, its signal will join forces with those from ground-based telescopes to form one giant virtual telescope. Using a process known as interferometry, they will form the equivalent of a single radio telescope dish that at over 350,000 kilometers (217,480 miles) across is almost 30 times wider than the Earth. Although it's not actually one physical object, it is nonetheless being heralded as the largest telescope ever created.
itself is nothing new, having been around since the 1960s. Very basically speaking, it involves combining the output of two or more geographically-separated telescopes to obtain one image with a resolution higher than either telescope could achieve on its own.
While radio telescopes have been sent into space for this purpose before, the plan is for RadioAstron's oval-shaped orbit to take it up to ten times farther than any of those other spacecraft have traveled, at 10,000 to 390,000 kilometers (6,214 to 242,335 miles) from Earth. Working with telescopes in locations such as West Virginia, Germany and Puerto Rico, it should be able to capture details at 10,000 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Plans for its use include the observation of a huge black hole at the center of a nearby galaxy, M87.

Russia's recently-launched RadioAstron spacecraft is intended to become part of the largest telescope ever created (Image: Russian Space Agency)

Although already launched, it will still be a few months before the spacecraft reaches the starting point of its orbit, and then goes through a check-out period with its ground control team at Russia's Lebedev Physical Institute Astro Space Center. Once it starts receiving and transmitting data ... well, there will be a lot of it. It's estimated that RadioAstron will be taking in up to 144 megabits per second, which will be continuously relayed to the ground.
So far, however, there is only one 22-meter (72-foot) dish set up to receive that data, near Moscow. This means that much of the data will simply be lost. It is hoped that throughout RadioAstron's five-year mission, more receiving stations can be set up.